Please do not enter our challenge using Sherri Baldy images. We do not allow these images to be used in projects by our DT for this blog so ask that you do not enter using her images. Entries that do so will be removed. Thanks.

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Time for another challenge here at Southern Girls and this week we would like you to......

ADD AN ANIMAL

To your card, layout or Off the Page Project.

We have some gorgeous samples from our DT and most of them have used images from one of our sponsors Teddy B0, which of course brings us to our next item of business our wonderful sponsors, who we wouldn't have a very exciting challenge without would we?

New Zealand/ Australia Sponsor

TeddyBo are very kindly providing some gorgeous Teddy Bo & Teddy Bea Digital Stamps for one lucky Kiwi or Aussie.

Teddy Bo stamps print out beautifully, ready for you to colour and make your own. From digital stamps to colour your own decoupage sheets we have lots for the Teddy Bo & Co friends out there. Teddy Bo & Co digital stamps will never be available on any other store however our rubber stamps shall be available in some retail outlets in the UK and the USA very soon.

International Sponsor

Michelle's Scrapbooking & More is home to the Pixie Cottage stamps as well as a retailer for many top brand papercrafting supplies. Sign up in our store and receive our newsletter with coupon codes, and new products.Michelle is very generously sponsoring us some wonderful Digital Images for one lucky International winner.

Alicia

Autumn

Bettina

Julie

Kazza

Marie

Sue

Trace

Viv

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY. If you live anywhere else just put your name. The following rules stay the same and we will now be deleting entries that do not follow these simple guidelines as is not fair on the people that do. We are not trying to be mean, just fair.....

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG.

Thanks loads for playing along with us....Lou, Trace & The DT Lovelies

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

WOW..... look at the amount of entries this fortnight, so many to get through and all so stunning! You are all making the DT job hard to pick out a few stunners when they are all jaw dropping! And what project wouldn't be with flowers on it!

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

After alot of deliberation and voting by the DT we can now announce our new DT member....

KAREN!!!!!!I am sure you will all join with Trace and I in welcoming Karen and I know you are going to love her layouts.

Thank You to everyone who applied, the desicion was really difficult due to the extremely high standard of applicants. We wish we could have taken you all on but unfortunately we had to be practical and sensible (grrrrrr), thanks again to all of you who took the time to apply and we hope that next time we have a call you will apply again.

Thursday, 10 March 2011

Cripes, sorry I am so late with the post this week. Anyway on with the show now..... This week is another nice easy peasy challenge for you,

USE FLOWERS!

See told you it is easy. And with 3 fantabulous sponsors this week am sure we are going to have a busy couple of weeks commenting on your gorgeous entries. Remember you can enter any projetc you like as long as it is papercraft.

We will anounce our new DT member next week so make sure and keep your eyes peeled for that exciting post.

Also tomorrow, the 13th, is my gorgeous, talented and very understanding co leader Tracy's birthday. Make sure and drop by and leave lots of lovely birthday wishes on her blog so she feels all warm and fuzzy for her birthday.

So now onto this weeks wonderful sponsors, the team have used either Whimsy or The Paper Shelter images on our cards to give you a taste of what is availble in the web stores.

International Sponsor.....

Whimsy Stamps is a family owned business and online store located in the United States. We carry a line of whimsical and fun rubber stamps made from deeply etched red rubber and mounted on EZ mount foam. We also have a digital stamp collection with new releases on the 1st of each month. We've recently added an online gallery for our DT and registered users where you can find lots of samples using our stamps. We also have an inspirations blog with daily postings and product info and our featured stamper Saturdays!

New Zealand/Australian Sponsors.....

The Paper Shelter is a fairly new digital stamp company with gorgeous images. The images come in both line and coloured. If you are looking for fun, cute and lovely digi stamps for your paper-crafting or web design projects, The Paper Shelter is your one-stop boutique!
This growing catalog of high-quality digi stamps with many different kind of options offers a multitude of themes such as everyday items, holidays, special occasions, children, adorable characters and creatures. Stamps are available in standard black and white line art, as well as in pre-colored format.
Images are wonderful for coloring and make perfect additions to greeting cards and scrapbook albums.

Come and join us on our website at; www.joannasheen.com or www.joannasheen.co.uk

For postage and packing free worldwide on an exciting array of craft supplies.

Sue

used Meljens Fluffy Bunny from Whimsy Stamps

Patricia
Used Funny Sunflower from The Paper Shelter

Michelle
Used Funny Sunflower from The Paper Shelter

Louise

Used Meljens Girl with Overalls from Whimsy Stamps

Karen
Used Daisy Butterfly from Whimsy Stamps

Julie
Used In the 20's from The Paper Shelter

Deb
Used Floating Away from Whimsy Stamps

Alicia

IF YOU LIVE IN AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND PLEASE ADD EITHER AUS OR NZ NEXT TO YOUR NAME IN THE LINK ENTRY. If you live anywhere else just put your name. The following rules stay the same and we will now be deleting entries that do not follow these simple guidelines as is not fair on the people that do. We are not trying to be mean, just fair.....

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE

ENSURE YOU LINK BACK TO SOUTHERN GIRLS IN YOUR BLOG POST

LINK TO YOUR POST NOT YOUR BLOG.

Thanks loads for playing along with us....
Lou, Trace & The DT Lovelies

Welcome to Southern Girls Challenge,The challenges will be posted 3 weekly on a Thursday and are open to crafters worldwide. They close at 12.01 pm on the Tuesday of the second week.Each week there will be 2 prizes, one for Australian and New Zealand entries and another for entrants from the rest of the world.Only 3 entries per person on regular challenges and 1 on Anything Goes Challenges.Please when you add your link if you are from NZ or Australia then add AUS or NZ after your name.Please link using your post link not your blog link and link back to us in your post.

Please enter in no more than 9 OTHER challenges. Hope you have loads of fun playing along. If you do not have a blog you can email us HEREChallenges are open to ALL PAPERCRAFTERS! As long as your entry fits the challenge criteria YOU ARE IN! The idea is to have fun and play along, the bonus is the prizes.Prize winners are chosen by Random.Org and the top 3 or 5 are chosen by the DT.

This Challenge blog is run by Tracy Jackson and Louise Forsyth. If you would like to contact us you can emailing us at...